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Professor Agustín Fuentes, Ph.D.
Nancy O'Neill Associate Professor of Anthropology.
Department of Anthropology
University of Notre Dame
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Image courtesy of Joan B. Kroc Institute, University of
Notre Dame.
Agustín Fuentes completed a B.A. in Zoology and Anthropology, and an
M.A.& Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California,
Berkeley. He taught in the department of Anthropology and directed the
Primate Behavior and Ecology program at Central Washington University
from 1996-2002 and is currently the Nancy O’Neill Associate Professor
of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. His research and
teaching interests include the evolution of social complexity in human
and primate societies, cooperation and conflict negotiation across
primates, including humans, and reproductive behavior and ecology. He
is also interested in issues of human-nonhuman primate interactions,
disease and pathogen transfer. Fuentes’ recent work includes the books
Core Concepts in Biological
Anthropology (McGraw-Hill) and Primates in Perspective (co-edited,
Oxford University Press) and articles such as “It’s Not All Sex and
Violence: Integrated Anthropology and the Role of Cooperation and
Social Complexity in Human Evolution” in the American Anthropologist,
“Re-visiting conflict resolution: Is there a role for emphasizing
negotiation and cooperation instead of conflict and reconciliation?” in
R. Sussman and A. Chapman Eds., The
Origins and Nature of Sociality, Aldine de Gruyter, Pub. His
current research projects include assessing behavior and disease
transmission in human-monkey interactions in Asia and Gibraltar and
examining the roles of cooperation, social negotiation, and patterns of
niche construction in human evolution.
